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Epitoniidae Berry, 1910 (1812)

Epitonium eclecticum

(Melvill & Standen, 1903)

Description:

Dimensions range from 5 mm - 6 mm high and 3.5 mm wide.
Width to height ratio: 0.7:1 ~ 0.58:1

Shell: ovate; minute. Exterior colour whitish, slightly shiny. About 6 whorls; protoconch with ~2 whorls subhyaline, white-brown, and very smooth; teleoconch with ~4 whorls ventricose, very closely lamellate. Umbilicate. Approximately 40 costae on the body whorl. Intercostal spaces smooth interspaces. Aperture round; outer lip thickened.


Distribution:

India, Pakistan.


Habitat:

not reported.


Etymology:

[greek] from eklektikos = selected


Type Material:

Syntypes: NHMUK 1903.12.15.10-11 [as Scala eclectica Melvill & Standen, 1903:] - Locality: India and Karachi, Pakistan. [Brown, L. & Neville, B.D., 2015]


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Melvill, J. C. & Standen, R (1903). Plate VII. Fig. 5.

Scala eclectica sp.n. (PI. VII., fig. 5).

Distribution

as listed in source literature

Melvill, J. C. & Standen, R (1903).
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Plate VII. Fig. 5.
Scala eclectica sp.n. (PI. VII., fig. 5).
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pp: 343.
Kaicher, S.D. (1980).
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Card #: EP1-2306.
Shell thin; inflated; with nunerous thin, erect costae; probably reaches about 6 em in height. (BMNH type collection 1903.12.15.10-11)

Card #: EP1-2306

Synonymy:

Scala eclectica Melvill & Standen, 1903: [from Brown, L. & Neville, B.D., 2015].


Source Literature:

Brown, L. & Neville, B.D. (2015). Catalog of the recent taxa of the families Epitoniidae and Nystiellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) with a bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature. Zootaxa. 3907(1). Magnolia Press Auckland, New Zealand. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3907.1.1
Kaicher, S.D. (1980). Epitoniidae I [Pack 23]. S. D. Kaicher, St. Petersburg, Florida. http://www.femorale.com/kaicher/species.asp?f=Epitoniidae&c=125
Melvill, J. C. & Standen, R (1903). The genus Scala (Klein) Humphrey, as represented in the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea, with descriptions of new species.. Journal of Conchology. 10. Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31650162

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